Hat-holding device



' Aug. 7, 1923.

' v L463898 E. D. LUTZ HAT HOLDING DEVICE Filed July -15 1922 Patented Aug.

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ELEANOR D. LUTZ, OE NEW YORK, N. Y.

HAT-HOLDING DEVICE.

Application filed July 15, 1922.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ELEANOR D. Lnuz,

a citizen of the United States, residing at New York city, county of New York, borough of Manhattan, and State of New York, have invented new and useful Improvements in Hat-Holding Devices, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact specification.

My invention relates to hat-holding means and refers particularly to means for maintaining a hat within a box in a predetermined position.

As ladies hats differ widely in width and height, it is practically impossible to have boxes, or containers, which are of the particular size to maintain each and every but from displacement when contained therein, and hence, hats thus placed with in a box are liable to be injured during transit unless they are aflixed thereto free from movement.

The object of my invention is a means whereby hats may be efiiciently and economically fixed to the inner face of a box wall and thus prevented from injury by movement therein.

in the particular form of the device of my invention, shown in the accompanying w drawings, similar parts are designated by similar numerals.

Figure 1 is a vertical cross-section of a box, or container, containing a hat maintained in position by means of my device.

Figure 2 is a top-plan view of one of the clamping members of my device.

Figure 3 is a side view of Figure 2.

Figure 4; is an enlarged broken sectional view showing the application of my to device.

Figure 5 is an end view of Figure 3.

Figure 6 is a perspective view showing the bottom of a box with my device in clamped position.

The particular form of the device of my invention, shown in the accompanying drawings, comprises a flat piece of bendable metal, or blank, 10, having one end in a somewhat pointed form 11 and carrying a plurality of openings 12, 12 of such a size as to admit the introduction of the pointed portion of a second metal blank member similar to the member 10. A bent pointed wire 18 passes through two openings in the unpointed end portion of the blank 10 and Serial No. 575,357.

is maintained therein by being bent parallel to itself on opposite sides of the blank 10, as shown in Figure 5.

The devices are used in pairs and in the drawings the second blank is designated by prime numerals.

The application of the device is as follows A hat is shown having the side 14, the rim 15 and the inner lining 16. The broad end portion of the blank 10 is placed upon the inner face of the lining 16 and the two prongs of the wire 13 are passed therethrough and bent downwardly, thus fastening the blank 10 to the lining 16. A similar blank 10 is similarly fixed to the lining at the opposite side of the hat. Two openings,or slots, 17, 17 are then made in the bottom of the box 18 and the blanks 10 and 10 passed therethrough. The blanks 10 and 10 are then bent toward each other, the pointed end of the blank 10' being inserted through a convenient opening 12 of the blank 10 and the pointed end 11 of the blank 10 being inserted through a convenient opening in the blank 10 andthe two devices abutted upon the exterior face of the bottom 18. The end 11 of the blank 10 is then bent backward to form a hook holding means, maintaining the two blanks 10 and 10 in combined position.

The prongs of the wire 13 may be inserted through the hat itself or any con-- venient attached part.

It will thus be seen that the hat is firmly maintained in position free from accidental displacement. It. is also evident that hats may be similarly aiiixed to the sides and top of the box, thus allowing the box to carry a' number of hats without danger of damage to them.

I do not limit myself to the particular size, shape, number or arrangement of parts, as shown and described, which are given simply as a means for the clear explanation of the device of my invention and its means of employment.

What I claim is 1. In a device capable of maintaining a hat within a box, a narrowing flexible metallic blank having a plurality of openings therein capable of receiving the narrower portion of a similar blank and means carried by the blank whereby it may be attached to a hat.

2. In a device capable of maintaining a hat within a box, a; flexible metallic blank having a narrow portion and having a plurality of openings capable of receiving the I 5 narrow portion of another blank when the blanks are extended outwardly from the box and wire means carried by the broader p0rtion of the blank capable of attachment to a hat within a box.

Signed at New York city in the county 10 of New York and State of New York this 14th day of July, 1922.

ELEANOR D. LUTZ. 

